Prepositional phraseological patterns in Czech and English: Towards a contrastive study resource

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15845/bells.v11i1" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15845/bells.v11i1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15845/bells.v11i1" target="_blank" >10.15845/bells.v11i1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Prepositional phraseological patterns in Czech and English: Towards a contrastive study resource

Original language description

This pilot study aims to identify differences in native and non-native phraseologies, focussing on prepositional patterns. Previous research suggests L2 users&apos; limited phraseological choices may hinder the accuracy of their language production, and prepositions can pose a particular challenge to Czech learners of English, given the lack of correspondence between translation equivalents. Further, prepositional patterns contribute to text structuring, making them an important part of learners competence. Using representative corpora of English and Czech, 3-to 5-grams containing the equivalent preposition pair in/vare extracted. The identified patterns are classified by their semantics and textual functions. While in/v patterns mostly fulfil corresponding functions in the languages compared, the distribution of these functions differs. Specifically, some pattern types are only found in English, highlighting its analytic nature as opposed to inflectional Czech.Keywords:n-grams, prepositions, native and non-native phraseology, typologically distant language pair, Czech/English1.IntroductionThis study is based in cross-linguistic distributional (Granger and Paquot, 2008)or data-driven (Grangerand Meunier(eds), 2008)phraseology, i.e. examining recurrent word combinations through corpora. It was prompted by earlier findings provided by research into non-native phraseology (Ebeling and Hasselgård, 2015; Granger, 2017; Granger and Bestgen, 2014; Hasselgård, 2019; Vašků, Brůhová, and Šebestová, 2019), as well as by the interest in -and need for -teaching materials reflecting those findings (Reppen, 2011). It is conceived as a pilot study, aiming to contrast a selected pattern group -prepositional patterns -between the typologically distant language pair of Czech and English. The results of this contrastive analysis can then be used as a springboard towards suggesting how n-gram based studies of phraseology can inform foreign language instruction.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Bergen Language and Linguistic Studies: CROSSING THE BORDERS: ANALYSING COMPLEX CONTRASTIVE DATA

ISBN

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ISSN

1892-2449

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

27-46

Publisher name

The University of Bergen

Place of publication

Bergen

Event location

Heidelberg University (+ online)

Event date

May 20, 2020

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

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